EVE General Discussion

That's assuming you don't do crazy stuff like place a refrigerated heat shield between your engines and your target, with the head being radiated out into space in the opposite direction. A bit of clever engineering and careful science-ing will leave you with a ship that is hard to detect except for the occasional occultation.

I want Hello Kitty prints on my ships.

Increases survivabilty with 200% as enemy will be too busy laughing while I run away cause they forgot to activate their tackle and guns.

Private is called to the General.

General: "Private, I missed you during camo practise."
Private: "Thanks for the compliment Sir."

Never served international, eh?

Obiously not.

BDUs of countries are different as much as green is a different color from red.

…aside from telling you something about what unit it is, like the details you just mentioned, even down to pinpointing a time and place for its existence. The pattern, like all other markings, is something that identifies the unit.

You see, the very novel concept that you apparently can't get into your tiny little military brain (and as someone who teaches people with these kinds of brains and who sees all kinds of patterns go by outside my office window due to the number and variety of visitors we get from all over the globe, I can speak with some authority on the matter… see how that works? Do you really want to go down that particular route?) is that it doesn't have to be “per unit” to do this. It just have to be different from other patterns used by other groups at other times and/or in other places.

If, for instance and for some inconceivable reason, someone would want to immortalise an USMC field unit from the early 21st centry, you bet your arse that MARPAT would be a component in that tribute.

That's because it's a nonsensical strawman that you've invented.

I served during the minor kerfluffle of the ACU. Back in that time, the ACU pattern was the only pattern we needed no matter what, anywhere in the world. Yeah, it was silly.

Last I heard, they're rolling out some more specifically desert colored digicam style camo, for sandbox stuff.


As an addendum to your statement, I actually did see a situation like that. A unit from Germany replaced my unit for OIF 5, and they brought all their woodland colored vehicles over to the desert. They didn't repaint, because having woodland camo trucks singled them out among the masses of desert painted trucks. Unit pride, yo.

There is nothing to refute, the plain and obvious purpose for camo is to visually hide the person or equipment. You, a civilian, has made up some historical purpose to support a dumb design in a game.

Space ships do not need to be hidden visually and if they did, camo from a planets surface, would be the incorrect type.

No matter how much you troll with off the wall posts you got from reading some internet site, you cannot change those basic facts.

Incorrect.
There is just nothing you are able to refute. There's a difference. Your continued attempts to cover this and having nothing but fallacies to (not actually) support you just proves me more and more right every time you fail at it.

Nope. That's just some dumb strawman you've made up along with your feeble attempts at trying to justify your very obvious mistakes about… oh, just about everything. Maybe if you took the time to read what I write instead of just half-arsing it and filling in the gaps vast yawning chasms with spectacularly ignorant guesswork on your part, you'd be in a better position to actually argue against what I say.

…and since it serves no such purpose, the paint scheme can be anything you like. It could, for instance, be a tribute to some famous or historically significant unit.

Good thing that I do none of those things then, and instead provide you with the basic facts you are so desperately trying to dismiss without reason, without argument, and without any kind of connection to reality. Facts such as how all kinds of colourations, designs, and markers can gain historical significance and thus be very important to retain or call back to for those who feel they have to maintain that legacy.